Performance of an anaerobic baffled reactor and hybrid constructed wetland treating high-strength wastewater in Nepal-A model for DEWATS

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 654-660

  Singh, Shirish ^a   Haberl, Raimund ^a   Moog, Otto ^a   Shrestha, Roshan Raj ^b   Shrestha, Prajwal ^c   Shrestha, Rajendra ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b UN HABITAT   (Nepal)

^c Environment and Public Health Organization (ENPHO)   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Anaerobic baffled reactor; Constructed wetland; DEWATS; High strength wastewater; Nepal; Pollutant removal efficiencies

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC BAFFLED REACTOR; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; DEWATS; HIGH STRENGTH WASTEWATER; NEPAL; POLLUTANT REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; REMOVAL; STORM SEWERS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WATER RECYCLING; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WETLANDS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING WORLD; MODEL; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

EID: 64649098334     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2008.10.019     Document Type: Article

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